The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1887-01-08
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

Call.
A peach tree in the orchard of d.
s. Blackwell, of Cobb County, S. G.,
is forty years old, and this year bore
two crops of peaches.
An Iowa insurance company offers
. reward for the best practical plan for
a tornado cave combining security and
cheapness.-Ch Chicago Journal.
The Legislature of the State of
Sonora, Mexico, has exempted from all
municipal taxation any Ice factories
that are or may be established within
the State.
During the past five months be-
tween two and three hundred persons
have been killed in Minnesota, Dakota
and Montana by electricity and lorna
does. Chicago Mail.
81 once saw person go into the
water with his nose embraced by q
clothes-pin," says scientific writer,
''and the greater number OF bathers
now protect the ears with wool. "
-Tramps are so numerous and
troublesome around Santa Clara, CAL,
that a vigilance committee has been
formed for the purpose of driving them
out of the cOuntry.-Sdn Francisco
Call.
The society men of Chicago are
making strong effort to popularize
knee breaches, but it is an uphill job.
The average man in Chicago society is
so how-legged that when he gets into a
pair of knee breeches and goes upon
the street he is always afraid of being
mistaken for pair of runaway ice
tongs. Philadelphia Press.
Paris has new institution that is
popular. 1t is an establishment on a
main boulevard where, by paying half
franc (ten cents), one can wash his
hands, have his boots BACKED, his coat
brushed, write letters, read all the
leading Continental and English news
papers, consult a reference library,
and use telephone. New York 8
many hotels render such an establish
ment unnecessary here.-N Y. Sun.
"a deposit of precious stones OF
the rare kind known as golden beryl,
has recently been found in the Berk-
shire hills" says the Boston Tran.
script, specimens of this gem are
occasionally met with in the hands o.
collectors, but it has never before been
found in sufficient quantity to become
an article of trade. When cut, the
stones are of beautiful golden color
exceedingly hard and OF great bril-
liancy."
A telegraph Office in London was
lately put in direct communication
with Teheran, Persia, three Thousand
eight hundred miles distant Ther
Kurrachee, in Northwest India, wa
added; then Agra, and at last Calcuttt
was switched on, with which direc
conversation was held through sever
thousand miles of wire at twelve o.
. fourteen words minute. The Gal
cutta operator could hardly be con
WINGED that he was talking with Lon
don.
-Numa l.. Seely lived with his par
ents in Cincinnati until his mothe
died and his father abandoned him
Then he went to work for farmer il
: Indiana, and while there stole a fey
+, dollars and bought coat. He wa
sent to the penitentiary for three years
. Now Governor Gray, of Indiana, ha
+. pardoned him because influential Cit
q zens of Cincinnati have asked him I
; and because the boy is heir to IL fin
property in that city, Cleteloa
: Leader.
9 "A Bridgeport Conn., paper say
Q that detective of that city recentl
$ received the following letter; "Wi
T you oblige me by going to some pictnl
gallery and set for my pictures | wi
pay you. My children and relation
are bothering me to have one took as
o am CROWN old, and as | am buzzy gi
o tin in crops can't spair time to com
II down. / hear you have disgizes q
Is you can do as well as me. Have o
o red side whiskers and good clothe
> Make the picture good lookin' an
l. when you .laff show your teeth as
o have bran new set of false ones.
l. am forty-eight years old and a vii
y over.
y The entire hop crop of New Yol
y State is a complete failure. The 10
n amounts to millions of dollars. II
N crop of 1885 is stated, in round figure
T. to have amounted to 1879, 600 bales; tn
n year $, in favored sections of countie
u will not amount to 10000 bales,
III which two-thirds are unfit for markC
Us Dealers give the following comparati
Il list of the yield in hops by countiC
Schoharie, 1885, $4,000 bales; 1886, B
bales. Otsego, 1885, 10000 bales; 1876
1000 bales. Oneida and Madison, 1875
- 10000 bales; 1886, 1900 bales. Lew
Nv 1885, 1900 bales; 1886, 500 bait
A Franklin, 1885, 10000 bales; 1886, 1,5
n bales. Montgomery, 1885, 20,C
SO bales; 1886, Nothing. Bales vary
A weight from 100 to 200 pounds.
a Herald.
ic- There recently arrived at Allan
va Ca, to be used on the Atlanta & CHI
en- lotte railroad, two of the larg
ne engines in the world. The cylind
av are 20x24 and the drivers are so inch
en- There are only three more engines
A this continent like these-one in CT
led fornia, one in Delaware, which
IL used for hauling coal, and the Other
8. Brazil. South America, which has b.
abandoned ON account of being
heavy fofNthe road and trestle. HI
hat engines WIN pull thirty loaded c
md over the,Agau4a q Charlotte road,
in on. any level road it can pull seig
,rs, CATS. They have eight driving-whe
ish tour on ea6h side, with automatic
Ity. brakes attached to each wheel, also